Five residents on the battle for affordable housing after the end of the city’s eviction moratorium
When the coronavirus struck New York City in March 2020, an unprecedented number of tenants stopped paying rent. Many just couldn’t afford it. Others demanded better conditions in their buildings. And some saw it as a way to call for structural change. This informal movement, organized around a call to “cancel rent”, was buoyed by a nearly two-year eviction moratorium, enacted to protect New Yorkers from losing their homes during the pandemic.
But with the moratorium expiring last month, have New York’s tenants recovered, or are they at risk of losing their homes?
